Nice! That's the first time I've seen game of life turned into a strategy game! Graphics looks great, really nice consistant art style :)


Good fun, nice job :D

Absolutely one of the greatest implementations of Conway's Game of Life ever. Was disappointed that the space was limited though but that's probably a whole lot better for balancing (R-Pentomino etc).

I did some undergraduate research in Cellular Automata... this is amazing!

I really truly enjoyed this and played for quite sometime, because it was fun! Needs sounds, and a couple of bug fixes. This is the kind of game that really needs to be shared with more people!

Lots of nerds out there would get a big kick out of this. I know I did.

Innovative implementation of the cellular automata stuff! Not my cup of tea for games, but others would definitely like this a lot.

@robbiehunt Glad you enjoyed the game. We are actually aware of a few bugs (the game starts lagging after a while probably due to unallocated resources and the scroll becomes insufficient once the field reaches a certain size).
If you observe any other bug please let us know!.
We will probably do a post-jam version with music, sound, and perhaps enhanced game mechanics, so any idea or suggestion is welcome.
Thanks everyone who have played the game so far.

Ok, before anyone picks up on the little mistake inside my previous post: It was "resources that are not being freed" instead of "unallocated resources".

Wow, great way to spin the game of life! One note - the web player's resolution seems to be limited horizontally, it says there are enemy units left but I can't see them on the screen. It also says I have 64 units but I only see 12. Thanks for a cool game!

turning game of life into an actual game is a brilliant idea - it's also well polished (only lacks sound and a few bugfixes)

well done !

I really liked the graphics of this game. This is probably the best implementation of Conway's Game of Life in a game that I've seen, and I've seen one before.

I had fun playing it, although it was a shame there was no definite end, or attainable goal. I managed to survive 75 round really easily (with peak of 116)

Nice idea.
I like the game of life :)

Cool game, was quite a challenge planning how to expand towards the enemy units

I've lived 94 rounds and reached a population peak of 87 cells. Pretty cool. I've seen similar games during my first LD, but I think this one would be among the better ones that implement such mechanic. Making a true game form Conway's automata is hard, because player has very little control over how structures interact when trying to destroy. I used some stable structures to survive and gliders to attack, but this doesn't really help when blue cells interact with red ones. It's hard to predict what will happen.
The idea is perfect, but this was done before and I'd definitely like to see some additional mechanic for better control over what I'm doing. Graphics are awesome.

I'm not sure if it was me or not, but I only saw the first screen of the tutorial, so I didn't know you couldn't place in the red or what ever the hell the red blobs were. Also, hard to place on the bottom row, kept accidentally hit start instead.

Very nice and creative work. In mobiles will be awesome!! :)

i think someone mentioned earlier but yeah, with some sound this would be huge on mobile devices. the game itself is fun as heck and i'm terrible at it but its still cool!

Cute! Loved the art, but the gameplay is a little too unpredictable to be fun.

Awesome game! I really like how you turned game of life into a strategy game. I works really well! The whole game is very polished and the art is fantastic. It definitely kept me playing until I'd finally killed as many enemies as I could!

If you make it into a full game, it would be cool to see some new unit types. Perhaps you could make ones with slightly modified Life rules? Ones that live longer? Another idea would be to have some obstacles and blocking terrain, so that your bacteria has to move around and between these obstacles.

Overall, great job! Definitely one of the best games in the jam!

interesting take, well executed, shame about the lack of audio.

Cool game, 6 rounds and 26 cells was my record. Graphics are solid. Also fits the theme!

Good job!

This is brilliant. A lot of people might not "get" this game, but for people familiar with CA and TGoL this is absolutely brilliant. I'd love a more fleshed out battle system because right now it's pretty random in appearance, but the idea is there, and it's fascinating. Great job!

Fantastic idea, the graphics to go with it are great too.

Really cool concept. Very polished but the scrolling was quite annoying to use.

Even though it is fun to play around with there was too much unpredictable behaviour trying to remove the red drops that it was very hard to remove them completely.

I don't know much about CA but maybe it would be possible to add a sort of "bomb" value with special rules that you could embed into a glider and then would "explode", removing enemy drops withing a radius.

Anyways, nice concept and well executed. Good work!

Ahh, pretty fun! Didn't last long (I'm terrible at the Game of Life!). Great graphics, though. Thanks for sharing!

I had to do a little research on the Game of Life to understand what was even happening in this game. You didn't mention the mouse controls of clicking and dragging to see the whole tutorial. It was pretty good and the graphics were nice, although the view was very small and scrolling around to see everything was annoying.

Fun little game, and good use of game of life. I found it difficult that the grid was so small though. Would have been really cool if later there was an option to zoom out and see many of these grids.

Thanks everyone for your comments, we'll try to address every problem with a post-jam release : )

The web link just took me to a blog.

Oh dude, you are so f*cking right. Since I messed yesterday with folder permissions and stuff I screwed up with the LD directory, so sorry. Now it's fixed.

interesting, kinda fun buliding little projectors to "fire" at red but i found myself wishing that it didn't do quit so much between turns so i could have a more detailed strategy.

Super cool idea, but it is so freaking hard to strategically fill cells in Conway's Life.

Interesting twist on an interesting concept. It was hard for me to develop a strategy - I wish there were some easier goals that kind of eased me into it. Had a hard time getting more than a few moves. Loved the sprite artwork too.

Great idea, and novel realization.

This is in dire need of cute sounds to go with.

I'm not sure what the "Game of life" is that everyone is referring to, but I'm just going to review how I saw it.

First, I think the concept is *really* interesting. Everything was moving a bit fast for me at the beginning though, it would have been better if there was more "hand holding" during the tutorials, but I guess there was really no time for that in the jam!

What I can say though is that I really think this is a concept that has potential. It looks to be pretty damn well suited for mobile ports, and I think it could really succeed there. I'd pay for an extended version for this for my phone.

Maybe with some more added gameplay mechanics, it could be pretty kickass!

Conway's Life, my nemesis. I never learnt the rules, so i just played by placing my drops at random.
Still, this is a great twist to the original idea with good looking graphics. I had some fun with it!

Props for building an enjoyable game concept around Conway's Game of Life :)

Very well tought and executed!

Beautifully presented, really original idea that fits the theme well. As others have noted using Conway's life is a really cool idea, but is pretty hard to predict the effect of your moves (NP-complete or something right?!) which means it is sometimes frustrating. I wonder if a tweak to the rules to favour life vs extinction would help? Really good package

There was scrolling? I couldn't figure out how to scroll. It didn't help that I couldn't get the instructions to work.

Very cute!

For the final version we will definitely make a better tutorial, we will explain scrolling probably together with some basic formations, and all that. We will add zoom in-out and the way that enemy attacks (Enemy will probably make his move right before you make yours (so when you place your cells you will see where he placed them) and won't be able to add more cells while things are "moving").
Modifying the rules is also something we intended to add but every change we tested broke the CGOL "compatibility".

Wow, I did try this game a week ago! And I love it! Though, I find it quite difficult finding 'strategies' that don't cause the death of your drops. However, that the challenging part! :D

Loving the game of life mechanic, got the concept straight away and really intuitive. Nice one.